Lights Out!
Jeremiah Haggerty
Issue date: 2/3/10 Section: News
Professor Paul Derby, the man in charge of CSC's sustainability
initiative, feels that by keeping students together and on campus energy can be conserved. "If we could find a way to get the whole campus to attend more events together
it would conserve a lot" he said.
Hicks explained that by keeping students on campus and active we can actually conserve energy. Students who spend their weekends on campus usually find time during
the day to get their work done as opposed to coming back to campus on Sunday night and staying up all night with the lights on.
In 2008, over 5 million kilowatts were burned up on campus. "It's a huge number" said Derby. "You can see a general increase each year from 1990 up almost every year." Hicks believes that if the campus can "flat line" N-period it would shed roughly an eighth of the bill. "I'm guessing we could knock off 50,000 kilowatts" he said.
In explaining Castleton's 13,000 volt electrical system Bill Allen said "Once we get meter in the other buildings we can narrow down our electricity
demands." Allen stated that the general electricity expense
for CSC is roughly 40-50 thousand a month. That's 500-600 thousand a year.
Professor Derby is expecting
that within the next year to have all of CSC's buildings
monitored giving some baseline data. "This spring we are working to make data on electricity use in metered buildings available to the public and, hopefully, the first dorm room competitions" said Derby. Allen explained that new technology like light sensors and dimmers will also help us in reducing energy usage "hopefully we can roll something out that will create an awareness" he said
"In theory you're paying the electric bill" Allen said. "If we could curve our electric
appetite students would save a few dollars on the other
end of tuition." Any electricity
that we as a Campus don't use reduces our carbon footprint also "and at the end of the day, that's a good thing as well" Allen said.
initiative, feels that by keeping students together and on campus energy can be conserved. "If we could find a way to get the whole campus to attend more events together
it would conserve a lot" he said.
Hicks explained that by keeping students on campus and active we can actually conserve energy. Students who spend their weekends on campus usually find time during
the day to get their work done as opposed to coming back to campus on Sunday night and staying up all night with the lights on.
In 2008, over 5 million kilowatts were burned up on campus. "It's a huge number" said Derby. "You can see a general increase each year from 1990 up almost every year." Hicks believes that if the campus can "flat line" N-period it would shed roughly an eighth of the bill. "I'm guessing we could knock off 50,000 kilowatts" he said.
In explaining Castleton's 13,000 volt electrical system Bill Allen said "Once we get meter in the other buildings we can narrow down our electricity
demands." Allen stated that the general electricity expense
for CSC is roughly 40-50 thousand a month. That's 500-600 thousand a year.
Professor Derby is expecting
that within the next year to have all of CSC's buildings
monitored giving some baseline data. "This spring we are working to make data on electricity use in metered buildings available to the public and, hopefully, the first dorm room competitions" said Derby. Allen explained that new technology like light sensors and dimmers will also help us in reducing energy usage "hopefully we can roll something out that will create an awareness" he said
"In theory you're paying the electric bill" Allen said. "If we could curve our electric
appetite students would save a few dollars on the other
end of tuition." Any electricity
that we as a Campus don't use reduces our carbon footprint also "and at the end of the day, that's a good thing as well" Allen said.
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